The Spaces of Organisation and the Organisation of Space: Power, Identity and Materiality at Work

ISBN-13: 9780230572683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 344 str.

K Dale

Opis

This book examines the role and utilization of workplace 'space': how it is organized; how it can reflect organisational values; how it can affect employee identities; and the many ways in which the physical environment can influence and affect organisational goals, especially in areas such as commitment, creativity and innovation.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Preface.- The Spaces of Organisation and the Organisation of Space.- PART I: THE SPACE OF ORGANISATION.- Building Organisation: Securing and Obscuring Power.- Building People: Identities and Organised Spaces.- PART II: THE ORGANISATION OF SPACE.- A Political Economy of Organised Space.- Boundary Crossings: Reproducing Organised Space.- PART III: CHANGING SPACES, CHANGING ORGANISATION.- Building a Social Materiality: Spatial and Embodied Politics in Organisation.- Alternative Spaces of Organisation?.- Conclusions: Disorganising Space.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

KAREN DALE is Lecturer in Organisational Analysis at the University of Leicester School of Management, Leicester, UK.

GIBSON BURRELL is Head of the School of Management and Professor of Organisation Theory at the University of Leicester, UK.